Melissa Joan Walker's writing has appeared in several outlets, including the Denver Quarterly; Sentence; Banshee; theNewerYork; After Hours; Orion Headless; Parable Press; Ignavia; Wunderkammer Poetry; Disembodied Text; Yes, Poetry; Split Rock Review; Tablet; The Manifest-Station and Modern Simplicity. She holds an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lives in Portland, OR with her family. Melissa blogs about spirituality at https://www.melissajoanwalker.com/blog.

Hi – Welcome to my website, where you can track my publications and contact me about teaching or speaking, and to my blog, where I write about finding a spiritual path, whether you believe in any sort of traditional God or not.

I have long been interested in spirituality, but really found myself in need of some sort of spiritual path, of something, in 2004, when I was bottoming out on drugs and alcohol.

I just couldn’t live like that anymore.

There had to be another way.

Through trial and error, and with a lot of help, I found that there was a voice I could trust inside me. We all can connect with a some sort of inner guide, personal to us, whether we’ve grown up with any spiritual path or not, whether we’re looking inside a church or out. Nothing is required except an open mind.

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